Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is no Puerto Rican mandate for statehood," Jorge I. Diminguez, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday. The recent election won by the prostatehood party was decided on economic issues and the statehood issue was deliberately excluded from the election beforehand by the winners, he said...
Several Puerto Rican students at Harvard oppose President Ford's proposal to make Puerto Rico the fifty-first state, and believe that Puerto Rico's commonwealth status will not change...
...People here are overwhelmed with surprise and don't want it," David J. Cortiella '77, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday...
Most Puerto Ricans are apprehensive about statehood because they fear steep federal taxes, and are also afraid that mainland U.S corporations will leave the island, Felix M. Torres '79, a son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday. The corporations may leave because of a loss of tax incentives and a loss of cheap labor due to an imposition of minimum wage laws, Torres added...
...Puerto Rican statehood would help the growing Puerto Rican upper class and hurt U.S. corporations, Cortiella said...